Thomas Hatcher

Thomas Hatcher ("ca." 1589 - 1677), was an English soldier, fighting on the Parliamentary side during the English Civil War, and a Member of Parliament.

He served as MP for Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford (1640-1648), and Lincolnshire (1654-1659).

He was one of the commissioners to Scotland in 1643, and was present at the Battle of Marston Moor and siege of York in 1644. He eventually reached the rank of Colonel. One of the members excluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge as being considered too moderate, he was elected again under the Protectorate.

References

*D Brunton & D H Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
*"Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
*Concise Dictionary of National Biography